VaxHacker

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I did once see if (!x) strcpy(x, ""); It was from a VB "programmer" who was experimenting with C. In production code.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I use the Logitech K120. It has all the right keys in all the right places and doesn't piss around with useless "media functions" on the F-keys making those the default instead of F1-F12.

Programming is about thinking, not typing, so you really don't need anything fancy. I've tried a couple of gaming keyboards only to find they're flaky af and ended up in the WEEE bin far too quickly for their price.

It doesn't meet your requirements of being wireless and Bluetooth though, but on the other hand it doesn't have stupid lights all over it and doesn't randomly stop working just because I forgot to plug it in so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Better: I've encountered a pair of booleans that appear to be exact opposites but aren't. To protect the guilty I've changed the words: isOpen and isClosed, when one is true the other is false and vice versa, EXCEPT that while something can't be both open and closed at the same time, it is possible for something to be not open and not closed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, because we already know exactly how this is going to go. Their need to constantly make more and more money means that we know TODAY what is going to happen: EEE. We know this because of Fark, Digg, now Reddit, and to a lesser extent Slashdot and StackOverflow. The profiteers aren't interested in federating, or having well-run communities; they're interested in money and nothing else. We know for an absolute fact that Meta needs to make money and they're only interested in the Fediverse because they see money in it (quite simply: because if they didn't they wouldn't be).

I completely get "we shouldn't strike pre-emptively" but if you wait until the third E it's too late. But we already know it's not pre-emptive because they've already enshittified their own communities. Ever tried scrolling through Arsebook recently without FBP and uBlock Origin? Article - article - ad. Article - article - ad. One item in fucking THREE is crap you're not interested in. That's what they want to force onto the Fediverse. We know it today. We have seen what they have done to their own stuff. So when they come sniffing round here we are completely justified in slamming the door in their face even if they promise to be nice this time, because we already know what they want.

"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it," and you don't have to look far. The influx of people into the Fediverse is directly caused by the profit-motivated enshittification of Reddit. If we don't draw the line here then we have to retreat back from Lemmy and invent something else, which they will then want to enshittify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You mean you jumped ship? </JimHacker(no relation)>

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Along with LemmX and Millemmials I suppose?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then the head of the Fedderation needs to be known as ServerLAN